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The motors and batteries are commodities...you can make a pretty good electric S-10 or Ranger with an '80s-'00s model for maybe $20-30k over the cost of the don
by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
The motors and batteries are commodities...you can make a pretty good electric S-10 or Ranger with an '80s-'00s model for maybe $20-30k over the cost of the donor. Stick the batteries under the bed.
Try it, and tell us it isn't the most fun you can have on four wheels.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoFor us shifter+clutch snobs all the praises of electric vehicles in this thread are falling on deaf ears.
- tiedieconderoga 4y agoNo reason you couldn't have a manual transmission on an EV, it could even help with energy efficiency but it might not be worth the weight. Biggest challenge would be the extreme torque.
- smitty1e 4y agoBoth of my diesels are manual transmission, but this thread has gotten downmodded far harder than most of my unpopular inputs. On blasphemes Gaia at peril.